I am about halfway through "Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill. It's shit, and all the way through it I've thought that it just reads like a second rate Stephen King, with ideas lifted entirely from Stephen King books, except with an
even worse writing style than the King-meister himself. It reads like all King books - great horror ideas and brilliant imagination, but terribly written and corny as hell. Today, out of curiosity I looked him up on wikipedia -
Joe Hill (writer) - Lo and behold! He's Stephen King's eldest son! Which explains the similar writing styles, and also how the lame fuck managed to get a book contract with this shit book.